Storytelling

modern R&B music off of Ocean’s debut album, Channel Orange. The nearly ten minute epic can be cleanly split into two distinct parts, due to a drastic and total shift in tempo, timbre and texture at around the 4:27 mark in the piece, but Ocean’s storytelling allows the two pieces to coexist perfectly, forcing the listener to remain attentive throughout the entire piece despite its intimidating length. Ocean leaves his artistic presence all over this piece with his smooth, power vocals and his…

story. Especially in the beginning, when we begin to learn about Marlow. Furthermore, the narrative overall seams forced and unnatural. Marlow is telling a dark and twisted story, yet his language seems too euphonious for the occasion. Marlow’s storytelling could be great, but I just could not connect with…

Because non-narrative storytelling in this way was so new at this time of filmmaking, the praise along with the negative criticism is not at all surprising. In the film our sense of time is quickly disoriented with the multiple flashbacks, shifts in time, and the constant repetition…

audiences to emotionally partake in new experiences. The audiences leave the theater with a broadened perspective. The empathy trend is apparent in all established stories in both the print and digital age, but does the trend continue for new forms of storytelling on new digital media…

hear that, you try and use it for encouragement if you are the one trying to cheer someone up or get them through a rough patch in their life. This seems to be true in Thousand and One Nights that we read during the semester. Shahrazad used her storytelling to try and control how her life ended up. Going in she knew that she may be killed just like every other women, but she wanted to change that. She told stories to try and change…

The primary purpose of storytelling was to teach their young ones about their surroundings and how everything came to be. It served in society as way to teach the young ones what to be aware of and to pass down their cultures. An example of this is in many Native stories from the pre contact era. In the story of the (Iroque Story myth), it gave us an example how it taught people how the world came to be. Another example of this is in the story of Coyote and the Origin of Death. In that story, it…

Historically, storytelling is one of the oldest forms of recorded, sequential human thought told for the purpose of entertainment to ever exist on Earth. At its core, the art of storytelling contains many elements that make up a story. Such elements include characters: imagined individuals within a story, setting: where the story sets place, and plot: the story being told chronologically. In this essay, I shall be writing about two other ingredients of literature found within the stories…

Throughout history, people have used song and music to convey their messages. Older than the written word, storytelling has always held an important role in society. Stories were meant to entertain as well as to tell and immortalize historic events. They were cautionary tales, and family histories passed down orally from one generation to the next. One of the ways this was done was through song. Harpists and poets would travel the countryside, telling their tales and singing their songs to…

In the semester that I have spent in Storytelling I have found one essential thing to reflect upon when pondering what has the class taught me. That one thing is learning is believing. This class is more about the learning of lessons of cultural story than the stories formal narrative. We learn to learn and I will explain that in the next few pages. The section has read many stories from this seminar. The topics touched involved race to religion and every other subject of the world we live in.…

Stories are much more than just accounts of events that have happened in the past. Stories are comprised of the narrator’s individual thoughts and perceptions formed into strands of words in order to draw out empathy or understanding from others. Every word within a story acts as a potential launching pad for the thoughts and emotions of the readers, causing no two encounters with the story to be alike. This lack of equality between individual readings separates the writer’s experience from the…